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  • Destruction of Demand: How to Shrink Our Energy Footprint

    - by Richard Hein­berg, Novem­ber 4, 2014, Post Car­bon Institute The human econ­o­my is cur­rent­ly too big to be sus­tain­able. We know this because Glob­al Foot­print Net­work, which method­i­cal­ly tracks the rel­e­vant data, informs us that human­i­ty is now using 1.5 Earths’ worth of resources. We can tem­porar­i­ly use resources faster than Earth regen­er­ates them only by…